100 banned books
Subtitle: censorship histories of world literature
By: Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova ; introduction by Ken Wachsberger.
Contributors: Bald, Margaret.; Sova, Dawn B.
Publisher: Checkmark Books; Infobase Holdings, Inc.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Prohibited books -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Censorship -- History.; Prohibited books -- History.
Other titles: One hundred banned books
Description: "Each entry includes a summary of the work, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading, 100 Banned Books is for all readers with an interest in censorship and its effect on specific works throughout the ages."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is a one volume abridgement containing twenty-five critiques from each of the four volumes in the Banned books series.
Table of contents: title: LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON POLITICAL GROUNDS. All Quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque -- Andersonville / MacKinlay Kantor -- Animal Farm / George Orwell -- Areopagitica / John Milton -- Black Boy / Richard Wright -- Burger's Daughter / Nadine Gordimer -- Decent Interval / Frank Snepp -- Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak -- Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck -- Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Hoax of the Twentieth Century / Arthur R. Butz -- I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier -- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse / Peter Matthiessen -- Johnny Got His Gun / Dalton Trumbo -- Land of the Free : A History of the United States / John W. Caughey & John Hope Franklin & Ernest R. May -- Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- 1984 / George Orwell -- Prince (Il Principe) / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Rights of Man / Thomas Paine -- Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Spycatcher / Peter Wright -- Ugly American / William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- United States Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 (The ``Pentagon Papers'') U.S. Department of Defense -- LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON RELIGIOUS GROUNDS. Age of Reason / Thomas Paine -- The Bible -- Bloudy Tenent of Persecution / Roger Williams -- Children of the Alley / Naguib Mahfouz -- Christianity Restored / Michael Servetus -- Church : Charism and Power: Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church / Leonardo Boff -- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems / Galileo Galilei -- Essays / Michel de Montaigne -- Guide of the Perplexed / Moses Maimonides -- Hidden Face of Eve : Women in the Arab World / Nawal El Saadawi -- Infallible? An Inquiry / Hans Kung -- Koran -- Lajja (Shame) / Taslima Nasrin -- Last Temptation of Christ / Nikos Kazantzakis -- New Testament / William Tyndale, trans. -- Ninety-Five Theses / Martin Luther -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- On the Infinite Universe and Worlds / Giordano Bruno -- On the Origin of Species / Charles Darwin -- Popol Vuh -- Red and the Black / Stendhal Marie-Henri Beyle -- Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone / Immanuel Kant -- Satanic Verses / Salman Rushdie -- Sorrows of Young Werther / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Talmud -- LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON SEXUAL GROUNDS . An American Tragedy / Theodore Dreiser -- Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights / Sir Richard Burton -- Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) / Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso -- Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison -- Candide / Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet -- Confessions / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure / John Cleland -- Forever / Judy Blume -- Forever Amber / Kathleen Winsor -- Group / Mary McCarthy -- Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy -- Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana / Sir Richard F. Burton & F. F. Arbuthnot -- Lady Chatterley's Lover / D. H. Lawrence -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Memoirs of Hecate County / Edmund Wilson -- Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe -- Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded / Samuel Richardson -- Peyton Place / Grace Metalious -- Rabbit, Run / John Updike -- Sanctuary / William Faulkner -- Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn / Henry Miller -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- Women in Love / D. H. Lawrence -- LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON SOCIAL GROUNDS . Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank -- Annie on My Mind / Nancy Garden -- Another Country / James Baldwin -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin -- Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath -- Black Like Me / John Howard Griffin -- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley -- Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger -- A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess -- Cujo / Stephen King -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- Go Ask Alice / Anonymous -- Howl and Other Poems / Allen Ginsberg -- Last Exit to Brooklyn / Hubert Selby Jr. -- Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- Manchild in the Promised Land / Claude Brown -- Naked Lunch / William S. Burroughs -- Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey -- Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee.